Alannah Tomkins

The experience of urban poverty, 1723-82

Parish, charity and credit

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comparative study of urban poverty is the first to chart the irregular pulse of poverty's encounters with officialdom. It exploits an unusual methodology to secure new perspectives from familiar sources. The highly localised characteristics of the welfare economy generated a peculiarly urban environment for the poor. Separate chapters e

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780719075049
• ISBN-10: 0719075041
• Artikelnr.: 22708726

Autorenporträt

Alannah Tomkins is Lecturer in History at the University of Keele

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables, figures and appendices Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1.
Introduction 2. Life in Urban Workhouses 3. Traditional Forms of Voluntary
Charity 4. 'Medical' Welfare and Provincial Infirmaries 5. Charity Schools
and the Treatment of Poor Children 6. Pawnbroking and the use of credit 7.
Conclusion Appendices Bibliography